PSW #745 – Sam Bowne
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1. Learning Should Be Fun – Sam Bowne – PSW #745
Many people think security is too difficult to learn because it is such a big field, and constantly growing. But it's endlessly fascinating and surprising, once you learn some fundamentals and get used to feeling stupid. My task is to help people get started, and learn how to appreciate this complex and challenging topic.
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Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes at City College San Francisco since 2000. He has given talks and hands-on trainings at DEF CON, Black Hat, RSA, and many other conferences and colleges. He founded Infosec Decoded, Inc., and does corporate training and consulting for several Fortune 100 companies, on topics including Incident Response and Secure Coding.
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2. Plastic Bags, NSA Playsets, Megs Insecure, PHP Strikes Back, & Gamification – PSW #745
In the Security News for this week: appliances with holes, gamification and its pitfalls, false rocket sirens, PHP strikes again, new laws we may actually agree with, hacking jacuzzis, Icefall and the state of ICS security, Adobe is blocking anti-virus, Mega is Mega insecure, Microcorruption CTF and DIY NSA playset!
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- 1. Cisco warns of security holes in its security appliances
- 2. Gamification of Ethical Hacking and Hacking Esports
- 3. Authorities Suspect Cyber Attack Behind False Rocket Sirens in Israel
- 4. Critical PHP flaw exposes QNAP NAS devices to RCE attacks
- 5. Senate bill would ban data brokers from selling location and health data
- 6. Hacking into the worldwide Jacuzzi SmartTub network
- 7. Icefall: 56 flaws impact thousands of exposed industrial devices
- 8. Zero Day Initiative — CVE-2022-23088: Exploiting a Heap Overflow in the FreeBSD Wi-Fi Stack
- 9. Adobe Acrobat may block antivirus tools from monitoring PDF files
- 10. Mega says it can’t decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwise
- 11. Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
- 12. Microcorruption
- 13. NSA Playset